lingo

Any online resources for learning Lingo/Shockwave Director?

I've been doing bits and pieces of work in Lingo while helping a friend with some projects he's working on, but I haven't found any good resources for actually learning the language. I'm sure I could pick up an old book somewhere that explains it, but I really just want a quick lesson and I think a website with some sample code and func...

Get the BIOS time in LINGO

Can someone tell me how to get the BIOS time in Lingo? ...

Comparing dates in Lingo

How do I compare two dates in Lingo? To be specific, I want to know if today's date is after some fixed date. I know I can create the fixed date by using: date("20090101") and I can get the current date using: _system.date() but I can't seem to directly compare the two. Do I have to parse the _system.date() to determine if it's aft...

Swapping information between ActionScript and Lingo

I have a lingo script which runs some data processing for a Flash movie. I can call my Lingo functions from Flash by putting the following inside one of my methods: getURL("Lingo: myMethod"); and I can pass parameters from flash to lingo as follows: getURL("Lingo: myMethod param"); However, if myMethod returns a value, I can't seem...

Lingo call to ActionScript not working

Hi, I have a Flash sprite in my Director project. Under the Properties of that sprite, under both the Member and the Sprite tabs, it has as its name "Assessment". In my Lingo script, I have the following call: sprite("Assessment").displayGrade(75, 3, 4) where displayGrade is a function defined in the Flash object's ActionScript as a ...

Director 11 and Flash with AS 2 communication

I have a Director project with 3 scripts (2 behaviors and 1 movie script). I have the following code in my movie script: on startRecording () --do stuff _movie.script["script2"].passGrade(75, 3, 4) end and in one of my behavior scripts, I have the following: on passGrade (acc, dur, tim) member("Assessment", "Assessment").displa...

Need help with cuepoints (Adobe Director project)!

Hi there! I have a little problem, there is a cd project done by another developer in Adobe Director. It is in three languages. This project has video files with subtitles... Subtitles attached to video with the help of cue points... if user selects another language, subtitles change as well... the library has images with text(i.e. subt...

Lingo Filter for Doxygen?

Does anyone know of or have a Lingo filter for Doxygen? I have played with DocMaker, but it introduces dependencies on director and is not a flexible or full featured as Doxygen. -Marty ...

How can you tell if a language is a "dynamic language"?

I'm trying to get a better handle on what it really means for a language to be "dynamic". I have quite a bit of experience with Lingo, which is the scripting language for the Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Director product line, and I'm just wondering if it would be considered a "dynamic language". The way variables and lists are handled s...

DIRECTOR "TCP/IP Socket sever/client"

Would Director be an option for creating a socket client? My client needs to accept server commands; frame rate, start etc. Director seems like it was made for controlling movies. I've got Director 11.5 at the office. Any lingo experts that could advise? Interaction with client SERVER==>XML PACKET==>CLIENT==>swf plays on given frame a...

Director/Lingo, making an application toggle between fullscreen and windowed?

Hi. I recently had a client contact me asking for an update to his project that I used to maintain/develop years ago. It was done using Macromedia Director (now Adobe Director) and Lingo. Since I haven't developed anything using these technology in such a long time I need some assistance. The majority of the changes are simple, but ...

Does Shockwave's preLoadMember actually cache?

Hi - I am trying to use Shockwave Director with a large 3D .w3d file. I load it like so: on enterFrame me if member(g3dMemberName).mediaReady = 1 then preLoadMember(member(g3dMemberName)) else go to the frame end if end which seems to work fine. However, the w3d never seems to come from the user's local cache. The documentat...

how to pass input data from swf to Lingo?

Hi We have an Arabic educational application in Director 11.5, published originally as projector for desktop use. Since Director don't support “right to left” languages, the application uses an ActivX component to call external encoded html and load it into a textarea container, in this way the Arabic language can be written and redden...